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Social Classification 'A'

Typically includes professionals such as doctors, lawyers and dentists, chartered architects and engineers. Individuals with a large degree of responsibility such as senior executives and senior managers, higher grade civil servants and higher ranks of the armed services.

Social Classification 'B'

Made up of university lecturers, heads of local government departments, executive officers of the civil service, middle managers, qualified scientists, bank managers, police inspectors and senior ranks of the armed services.

Social Classification 'C2'

Comprises skilled manual workers who have served apprenticeships; foremen, manual workers with special qualifications such as long distance lorry drivers, security officers and other non commissioned officers within the armed services.

Social Classification 'D'

Includes semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers, including labourers and people serving apprenticeships; clerical assistants in the civil service, machine minders, farm labourers, laboratory assistants, postmen and all other members of the armed services.

Social Classification 'E'

Made up of Pensioners, casual workers, long term unemployed people, and others with relatively low or fixed levels of income.

Identity Theft in GL55 6BQ

Based on information in the Cameo profile, many people in GL55 6BQ travel to work by car or motorbike.

A driving licence is a valuable document for an identity thief, so it is important that you don't carry it with you unless it's needed, and that you store it in a secure location at home.

Celebrity/Famous Postcodes

GL55 6BQ, United Kingdom

Financial Risk in GL55 6BQ

Public databases such as the Register of Court Judgments and Insolvency Records are combined with census data and 'lifestyle' information collected from questionnaires to evaluate the average financial risk in a postcode.

Average Credit Rating & Credit Score

Using the Cameo financial profile for the residents of GL55 6BQ, this has been evaluated as:

790 out of 1000

How This Compares To The UK Average

When compared to the rest of the UK, this score is higher than average.

GL55 6BQ: 790

0

1000

UK Average: 750

You can compare this postcode-based Credit Score to your own by using either our Free Credit Score service, or more accurately, and based on your payment history, when you purchase one of our market leading Credit Reports.

Manufacturing industries such as brewing and steel fabrication, service industries such as tourism and retail, as well as research, technology and education

Agriculture

No. of Directors

There are few company directors

Not provided

Income Levels

Not provided

Slightly higher proportion than average of people earning between £10,000 and £15,000

Travel To Work

Car/motorbike or public transport

Not provided

Property in GL55 6BQ

Compare how the two geodemographic database providers describe properties in GL55 6BQ. Remember this is based on the postcode classification, so may not be representative of the actual mix of properties in GL55 6BQ.

Housing Type

Semi-detached, terraced or flats

Mixed housing particularly with some detached

Tenure

Owned outright, mortgaged or council houses

Slightly higher proportion than average of properties owned outright

General House Price

Below average prices

Over £160K and less than £210K

Length of Stay

Over 4 years

Not provided

House Size

Below average sized dwellings

Not provided

Lifestyle in GL55 6BQ

Derived from census and survey results, this section gives some broad indicators of how the residents of this postcode live.

Newspapers

Regional or Tabloid

Slightly higher proportion of people than average read mid-market newspapers

Mail Order

Very high take up

Slightly higher proportion of people than average occasionally

Internet Usage

High usage

Not provided

Car Ownership

Average

Not provided

Charity

Not provided

Slightly higher proportion of people than average frequently donate

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Cameo

Cameo™ is owned by Eurodirect Marketing and is one of a handful of geodemographic databases that are commercially available in the UK. Another is Censation, which you can compare directly on checkmyfile.

Cameo™ classes every postcode into one of around 50 postcode classifications, which in turn are based on information from many sources including insolvency and court information, questionnaires and census data. Geodemographic data can often be one of the components of the calculation of some credit scores, can dictate the amount and type of junk mail you receive and is also used by retail stores and supermarkets to help locate new shops in areas mostly likely to suit their customers.

Please note that the same postcode can be classified quite differently by different geodemographic companies.

Censation

Censation™, owned by AFD Software, classifies every UK postcode using the latest and most comprehensive data about where people live, how affluent or deprived they are and what 'life stage' they are in. Information about housing, employment, qualifications - over 600 variables from the latest UK Census - are analysed together with residential and commercial data and then validated further using a life-style database.

There are several similar databases. You can compare how this postcode is rated in the Cameo database. Please note that classifications can and do differ on different databases.

Geodemographic Data

Geodemographic data attempts to classify every postcode into one of around just 50 classifications. These are then used by marketing people to target goods and services and by others to site out of town shopping centres, or supermarkets. It is also used in credit scorecards to give a measure of risk, especially if other information is not available from anywhere else. The impact of geodemographic data on your credit score is relatively small compared to other things, such as your age or your residential status.

When putting together geodemographic data, statisticians use census based information, together with information derived from consumer questionnaires (for example, the ones that offer shopping vouchers in return), and data from credit reference agencies. The full census only happens once every 10 years and consumers are increasingly giving less accurate responses to questionnaires, so it is inevitable that some postcodes will be classified incorrectly because of out of date census information or poor quality responses from questionnaires.

We think it's very important that this data should be easy to access and interpret, so that if there is any error or anomaly, this can be passed back to the people who own the data, so that the classification can be re-evaluated.

Over 20,000 people check postcodes on checkmyfile every day.

It's important to remember the limitations of trying to describe every area in the UK within the constraints of just 50 types. The general description is usually correct, but some of the detail may be very different.

Remember, we don't own the data so we can't amend it ourselves, but we can feed information back to the people who can.

Postcode Classifications

There are around 50 or so 'model' classifications for all postcodes in the UK. They are a general view of various aspects of a postcode, and rarely do all parts of the description of a postcode classification match every aspect of the actual postcode itself.

Because they are generalisations, they help marketing people to identify postcode areas that contain people with similar, but not exact, lifestyles across the UK.